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...were not uncommon. One father killed his young family. Dr. Grenfell had to teach them how to live. He set them to work planting turnips, cabbages, tomatoes for protection against scurvy, established cooperative stores, built trade schools, orphanages, imported sheep and goats. started home industries-mink breeding, rug-making, walrus-tusk carving...
Spring Parade (Universal). As a social document, Spring Parade arrives one war too late. Its tender treatment of walrus-mustached old Emperor Franz Josef of Austria leaves the impression that the imperialistic monarchs dethroned after World War I were just costumed Good-fellows whose apparent preoccupation with the pomp of politics could be easily sidetracked in order to help untangle a romance. When Spring Parade's Franz Josef cozily wrinkles his nose at a pretty peasant girl (Deanna Durbin) sometime circa 1896, he means that he is going to make sure she gets the drummer (Robert Cummings...
Back at his hotel, the Walrus talked to Adolf Hitler on the telephone. Next day he saw II Duce again, paid him a third visit before winding up his four-day mission and leaving for Berlin, where Don Ramón Serrano Suñer was still waiting to learn what Spain must do to earn her place in Hitler's brave new world...
...Stabilization of the Balkans, including satisfaction of Italy's claims against Greece (TIME, Aug. 26), and probably a division of Yugoslavia to give Italy the Dalmatian coast - unless Germany was insisting on an Adriatic outlet. Axis stabilization means Axis domination, and Hitler's Walrus and Mussolini's Carpenter had no oysters to spare for Joseph Stalin. That was one reason for the secrecy that clothed last week's conversations...
...Africa, the Walrus and the Carpenter decided last week, "has the same relationship to Europe that South America has to the United States." The Axis idea of how to treat their South America was to divide it up among themselves, perhaps tossing a few crumbs to an Axis-dominated France. Drawing their new map of the continent, Foreign Ministers Ciano and von Ribbentrop awarded North Africa to Italy (with bits for Spain and France), Central Africa to Germany. In the south, they agreed, Germany would recover lost German South-West Africa and the rest of the Union of South Africa...